Finding our links in History - One Genealogist's thoughts, tidbits, and inspirations - All very much randomly posed.
One person's life does not stand-alone but interacts with family, neighbors, community, and history. Our Trees become Tangled just by living. --
T.

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Discover how your ancestors were affected by the Easter Rising and Irish War of Independence in the biggest collection of British War Office records relating to the events of 1916-1921 ever released. These 75,000 fascinating records are are free to view on Findmypast until 27 April, and vividly expose the brutality of life on the streets under martial law in Ireland.

Thursday, April 14, 2016

On this day in
history in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes
Booth while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.Just five days earlier, the commander of the Confederate
Army of Northern Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, General Robert E. Lee,
surrendered to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army of the
Potomac, and the Civil War was drawing to a close.

Saturday, April 9, 2016

Using the University of IllinoisIllinois Harvest website's online collection of State and County local histories, I was able to search by County name and locate the following book:

"Portrait and biographical
record of Macoupin County, Illinois : containing biographical sketches
of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with
biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of
the United States"

Published in 1891, this book is available in electronic format. Clicking on the link on the search result page takes me directly to the Archive.org reader and there I found the following biography on our Casteel relation: